Profiling Combat Sports Athletes: Competitive History and Outcomes According to Sports Type and Current Level of Competition

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Table 7 Self-reported winning and losing ratios: differences according to current primary sports and current level of competition

		n	Wining ratio (1)		Losing ratio (2)
		n	M	SD	M	SD
Current primary sport: F (6, 290): (1)= 1.34, p= .24; (2) 1.36, p= .23.	MMA	30	65.10	29.36	29.30	28.11
	MT/KB	46	62.73	27.55	31.44	23.94
	Boxing	61	64.99	30.12	29.99	27.29
	BJJ	58	61.52	23.55	34.90	22.57
	Wrestling	43	69.89	19.19	30.03	19.25
	Judo	26	61.80	21.20	37.69	21.28
	TSS	34	54.30	30.97	41.82	31.17
Current level of competition: F (2, 294): (1)= 1.41, p= .25; (2)= 1.92, p= .15.	Amateur	115	61.82	30.00	31.43	26.56
	Regional/state	99	61.30	25.24	37.23	25.14
	Elite	84	67.28	22.45	30.61	22.32

Notes: M mean, SD standard deviation, MMA mixed martial arts, MT/KB Muay Thai/kickboxing, BJJ Brazilian jiu-jitsu, TSS traditional striking sports
Superscripts indicate where Bonferonni adjusted pair-wise tests indicated group differences, with scores in bold indicating the lowest scores in pairwise differences. (1) TSS and boxing (d= 0.67, medium effect), MT/KB (d= 0.83. large effect) and MMA (d= 0.90, large effect)
Two-way ANOVAs (current primary x current level: F(12, 276) were non-significant for (1)= 0.61, p= .83; (2)= .65, p= 80